mne.preprocessing.ICA

class mne.preprocessing.ICA(n_components=None, *, noise_cov=None, random_state=None, method='fastica', fit_params=None, max_iter='auto', allow_ref_meg=False, verbose=None)

Data decomposition using Independent Component Analysis (ICA).

This object estimates independent components from mne.io.Raw, mne.Epochs, or mne.Evoked objects. Components can optionally be removed (for artifact repair) prior to signal reconstruction.

Warning

ICA is sensitive to low-frequency drifts and therefore requires the data to be high-pass filtered prior to fitting. Typically, a cutoff frequency of 1 Hz is recommended.

Parameters

n_componentsint | float | None

Number of principal components (from the pre-whitening PCA step) that are passed to the ICA algorithm during fitting:

• int

  Must be greater than 1 and less than or equal to the number of channels.

• float between 0 and 1 (exclusive)

  Will select the smallest number of components required to explain the cumulative variance of the data greater than n_components. Consider this hypothetical example: we have 3 components, the first explaining 70%, the second 20%, and the third the remaining 10% of the variance. Passing 0.8 here (corresponding to 80% of explained variance) would yield the first two components, explaining 90% of the variance: only by using both components the requested threshold of 80% explained variance can be exceeded. The third component, on the other hand, would be excluded.

• None

  0.999999 will be used. This is done to avoid numerical stability problems when whitening, particularly when working with rank-deficient data.

Defaults to None. The actual number used when executing the ICA.fit() method will be stored in the attribute n_components_ (note the trailing underscore).

Changed in version 0.22: For a float, the number of components will account for greater than the given variance level instead of less than or equal to it. The default (None) will also take into account the rank deficiency of the data.

noise_covNone | instance of Covariance

Noise covariance used for pre-whitening. If None (default), channels are scaled to unit variance (“z-standardized”) as a group by channel type prior to the whitening by PCA.

random_stateNone | int | instance of RandomState

A seed for the NumPy random number generator (RNG). If None (default), the seed will be obtained from the operating system (see RandomState for details), meaning it will most likely produce different output every time this function or method is run. To achieve reproducible results, pass a value here to explicitly initialize the RNG with a defined state.

method‘fastica’ | ‘infomax’ | ‘picard’

The ICA method to use in the fit method. Use the fit_params argument to set additional parameters. Specifically, if you want Extended Infomax, set method='infomax' and fit_params=dict(extended=True) (this also works for method='picard'). Defaults to 'fastica'. For reference, see 1234.

fit_paramsdict | None

Additional parameters passed to the ICA estimator as specified by method. Allowed entries are determined by the various algorithm implementations: see FastICA, picard(), infomax().

max_iterint | ‘auto’

Maximum number of iterations during fit. If 'auto', it will set maximum iterations to 1000 for 'fastica' and to 500 for 'infomax' or 'picard'. The actual number of iterations it took ICA.fit() to complete will be stored in the n_iter_ attribute.

allow_ref_megbool

Allow ICA on MEG reference channels. Defaults to False.

New in version 0.18.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Notes

Changed in version 0.23: Version 0.23 introduced the max_iter='auto' settings for maximum iterations. With version 0.24 'auto' will be the new default, replacing the current max_iter=200.

Changed in version 0.23: Warn if Epochs were baseline-corrected.

Note

If you intend to fit ICA on Epochs, it is recommended to high-pass filter, but not baseline correct the data for good ICA performance. A warning will be emitted otherwise.

A trailing _ in an attribute name signifies that the attribute was added to the object during fitting, consistent with standard scikit-learn practice.

ICA fit() in MNE proceeds in two steps:

1. Whitening the data by means of a pre-whitening step (using noise_cov if provided, or the standard deviation of each channel type) and then principal component analysis (PCA).

2. Passing the n_components largest-variance components to the ICA algorithm to obtain the unmixing matrix (and by pseudoinversion, the mixing matrix).

ICA apply() then:

1. Unmixes the data with the unmixing_matrix_.

2. Includes ICA components based on ica.include and ica.exclude.

3. Re-mixes the data with mixing_matrix_.

4. Restores any data not passed to the ICA algorithm, i.e., the PCA components between n_components and n_pca_components.

n_pca_components determines how many PCA components will be kept when reconstructing the data when calling apply(). This parameter can be used for dimensionality reduction of the data, or dealing with low-rank data (such as those with projections, or MEG data processed by SSS). It is important to remove any numerically-zero-variance components in the data, otherwise numerical instability causes problems when computing the mixing matrix. Alternatively, using n_components as a float will also avoid numerical stability problems.

The n_components parameter determines how many components out of the n_channels PCA components the ICA algorithm will actually fit. This is not typically used for EEG data, but for MEG data, it’s common to use n_components < n_channels. For example, full-rank 306-channel MEG data might use n_components=40 to find (and later exclude) only large, dominating artifacts in the data, but still reconstruct the data using all 306 PCA components. Setting n_pca_components=40, on the other hand, would actually reduce the rank of the reconstructed data to 40, which is typically undesirable.

If you are migrating from EEGLAB and intend to reduce dimensionality via PCA, similarly to EEGLAB’s runica(..., 'pca', n) functionality, pass n_components=n during initialization and then n_pca_components=n during apply(). The resulting reconstructed data after apply() will have rank n.

Note

Commonly used for reasons of i) computational efficiency and ii) additional noise reduction, it is a matter of current debate whether pre-ICA dimensionality reduction could decrease the reliability and stability of the ICA, at least for EEG data and especially during preprocessing 5. (But see also 6 for a possibly confounding effect of the different whitening/sphering methods used in this paper (ZCA vs. PCA).) On the other hand, for rank-deficient data such as EEG data after average reference or interpolation, it is recommended to reduce the dimensionality (by 1 for average reference and 1 for each interpolated channel) for optimal ICA performance (see the EEGLAB wiki).

Caveat! If supplying a noise covariance, keep track of the projections available in the cov or in the raw object. For example, if you are interested in EOG or ECG artifacts, EOG and ECG projections should be temporally removed before fitting ICA, for example:

>> projs, raw.info['projs'] = raw.info['projs'], []
>> ica.fit(raw)
>> raw.info['projs'] = projs

Methods currently implemented are FastICA (default), Infomax, and Picard. Standard Infomax can be quite sensitive to differences in floating point arithmetic. Extended Infomax seems to be more stable in this respect, enhancing reproducibility and stability of results; use Extended Infomax via method='infomax', fit_params=dict(extended=True). Allowed entries in fit_params are determined by the various algorithm implementations: see FastICA, picard(), infomax().

Note

Picard can be used to solve the same problems as FastICA, Infomax, and extended Infomax, but typically converges faster than either of those methods. To make use of Picard’s speed while still obtaining the same solution as with other algorithms, you need to specify method='picard' and fit_params as a dictionary with the following combination of keys:

• dict(ortho=False, extended=False) for Infomax

• dict(ortho=False, extended=True) for extended Infomax

• dict(ortho=True, extended=True) for FastICA

Reducing the tolerance (set in fit_params) speeds up estimation at the cost of consistency of the obtained results. It is difficult to directly compare tolerance levels between Infomax and Picard, but for Picard and FastICA a good rule of thumb is tol_fastica == tol_picard ** 2.

References

1

Aapo Hyvärinen. Fast and robust fixed-point algorithms for independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 10(3):626–634, 1999. doi:10.1109/72.761722.

2

Anthony J. Bell and Terrence J. Sejnowski. An information-maximization approach to blind separation and blind deconvolution. Neural Computation, 7(6):1129–1159, 1995. doi:10.1162/neco.1995.7.6.1129.

3

Te-Won Lee, Mark Girolami, and Terrence J. Sejnowski. Independent component analysis using an extended infomax algorithm for mixed subgaussian and supergaussian sources. Neural Computation, 11(2):417–441, 1999. doi:10.1162/089976699300016719.

4

Pierre Ablin, Jean-Francois Cardoso, and Alexandre Gramfort. Faster Independent Component Analysis by preconditioning with hessian approximations. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 66(15):4040–4049, 2018. doi:10.1109/TSP.2018.2844203.

5

Fiorenzo Artoni, Arnaud Delorme, and Scott Makeig. Applying dimension reduction to EEG data by Principal Component Analysis reduces the quality of its subsequent Independent Component decomposition. NeuroImage, 175:176–187, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.016.

6

Jair Montoya-Martínez, Jean-François Cardoso, and Alexandre Gramfort. Caveats with stochastic gradient and maximum likelihood based ICA for EEG. In Petr Tichavský, Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Olivier J.J. Michel, and Nadège Thirion-Moreau, editors, Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, number 10169 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 279–289. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53547-0_27.

Attributes

current_fitstr

Flag informing about which data type (raw or epochs) was used for the fit.

ch_nameslist-like

Channel names resulting from initial picking.

n_components_int

If fit, the actual number of PCA components used for ICA decomposition.

pre_whitener_ndarray, shape (n_channels, 1) or (n_channels, n_channels)

If fit, array used to pre-whiten the data prior to PCA.

pca_components_ndarray, shape (n_channels, n_channels)

If fit, the PCA components.

pca_mean_ndarray, shape (n_channels,)

If fit, the mean vector used to center the data before doing the PCA.

pca_explained_variance_ndarray, shape (n_channels,)

If fit, the variance explained by each PCA component.

mixing_matrix_ndarray, shape (n_components_, n_components_)

If fit, the whitened mixing matrix to go back from ICA space to PCA space. It is, in combination with the pca_components_, used by ICA.apply() and ICA.get_components() to re-mix/project a subset of the ICA components into the observed channel space. The former method also removes the pre-whitening (z-scaling) and the de-meaning.

unmixing_matrix_ndarray, shape (n_components_, n_components_)

If fit, the whitened matrix to go from PCA space to ICA space. Used, in combination with the pca_components_, by the methods ICA.get_sources() and ICA.apply() to unmix the observed data.

excludearray-like of int

List or np.array of sources indices to exclude when re-mixing the data in the ICA.apply() method, i.e. artifactual ICA components. The components identified manually and by the various automatic artifact detection methods should be (manually) appended (e.g. ica.exclude.extend(eog_inds)). (There is also an exclude parameter in the ICA.apply() method.) To scrap all marked components, set this attribute to an empty list.

infomne.Info | None

The mne.Info object with information about the sensors and methods of measurement.

n_samples_int

The number of samples used on fit.

labels_dict

A dictionary of independent component indices, grouped by types of independent components. This attribute is set by some of the artifact detection functions.

n_iter_int

If fit, the number of iterations required to complete ICA.

Methods

__contains__(ch_type)	Check channel type membership.
apply(inst[, include, exclude, ...])	Remove selected components from the signal.
copy()	Copy the ICA object.
find_bads_ecg(inst[, ch_name, threshold, ...])	Detect ECG related components.
find_bads_eog(inst[, ch_name, threshold, ...])	Detect EOG related components using correlation.
find_bads_ref(inst[, ch_name, threshold, ...])	Detect MEG reference related components using correlation.
fit(inst[, picks, start, stop, decim, ...])	Run the ICA decomposition on raw data.
get_channel_types([picks, unique, only_data_chs])	Get a list of channel type for each channel.
get_components()	Get ICA topomap for components as numpy arrays.
get_sources(inst[, add_channels, start, stop])	Estimate sources given the unmixing matrix.
plot_components([picks, ch_type, res, vmin, ...])	Project mixing matrix on interpolated sensor topography.
plot_overlay(inst[, exclude, picks, start, ...])	Overlay of raw and cleaned signals given the unmixing matrix.
plot_properties(inst[, picks, axes, dB, ...])	Display component properties.
plot_scores(scores[, exclude, labels, ...])	Plot scores related to detected components.
plot_sources(inst[, picks, start, stop, ...])	Plot estimated latent sources given the unmixing matrix.
save(fname, *[, overwrite, verbose])	Store ICA solution into a fiff file.
score_sources(inst[, target, score_func, ...])	Assign score to components based on statistic or metric.

__contains__(ch_type)

Check channel type membership.

Parameters

ch_typestr

Channel type to check for. Can be e.g. ‘meg’, ‘eeg’, ‘stim’, etc.

Returns

inbool

Whether or not the instance contains the given channel type.

Examples

Channel type membership can be tested as:

>>> 'meg' in inst  
True
>>> 'seeg' in inst  
False

apply(inst, include=None, exclude=None, n_pca_components=None, start=None, stop=None, verbose=None)

Remove selected components from the signal.

Given the unmixing matrix, transform the data, zero out all excluded components, and inverse-transform the data. This procedure will reconstruct M/EEG signals from which the dynamics described by the excluded components is subtracted.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

The data to be processed (i.e., cleaned). It will be modified in-place.

includearray_like of int

The indices referring to columns in the ummixing matrix. The components to be kept. If None (default), all components will be included (minus those defined in ica.exclude and the exclude parameter, see below).

excludearray_like of int

The indices referring to columns in the ummixing matrix. The components to be zeroed out. If None (default) or an empty list, only components from ica.exclude will be excluded. Else, the union of exclude and ica.exclude will be excluded.

n_pca_componentsint | float | None

The number of PCA components to be kept, either absolute (int) or fraction of the explained variance (float). If None (default), the ica.n_pca_components from initialization will be used in 0.22; in 0.23 all components will be used.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used to the last sample.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

outinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

The processed data.

Notes

Note

Applying ICA may introduce a DC shift. If you pass baseline-corrected Epochs or Evoked data, the baseline period of the cleaned data may not be of zero mean anymore. If you require baseline-corrected data, apply baseline correction again after cleaning via ICA. A warning will be emitted to remind you of this fact if you pass baseline-corrected data.

Changed in version 0.23: Warn if instance was baseline-corrected.

Examples using apply:

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

property compensation_grade

The current gradient compensation grade.

copy()

Copy the ICA object.

Returns

icainstance of ICA

The copied object.

Examples using copy:

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

find_bads_ecg(inst, ch_name=None, threshold='auto', start=None, stop=None, l_freq=8, h_freq=16, method='ctps', reject_by_annotation=True, measure='zscore', verbose=None)

Detect ECG related components.

Cross-trial phase statistics 7 or Pearson correlation can be used for detection.

Note

If no ECG channel is available, routine attempts to create an artificial ECG based on cross-channel averaging.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

Object to compute sources from.

ch_namestr

The name of the channel to use for ECG peak detection. The argument is mandatory if the dataset contains no ECG channels.

thresholdfloat | ‘auto’

Value above which a feature is classified as outlier. See Notes.

Changed in version 0.21.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample. When working with Epochs or Evoked objects, must be float or None.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used to the last sample. When working with Epochs or Evoked objects, must be float or None.

l_freqfloat

Low pass frequency.

h_freqfloat

High pass frequency.

method‘ctps’ | ‘correlation’

The method used for detection. If 'ctps', cross-trial phase statistics 7 are used to detect ECG-related components. See Notes.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

New in version 0.14.0.

measure‘zscore’ | ‘correlation’

Which method to use for finding outliers among the components:

• 'zscore' (default) is the iterative z-scoring method. This method computes the z-score of the component’s scores and masks the components with a z-score above threshold. This process is repeated until no supra-threshold component remains.

• 'correlation' is an absolute raw correlation threshold ranging from 0 to 1.

New in version 0.21.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

ecg_idxlist of int

The indices of ECG-related components.

scoresnp.ndarray of float, shape (n_components_)

If method is ‘ctps’, the normalized Kuiper index scores. If method is ‘correlation’, the correlation scores.

See also

find_bads_eog, find_bads_ref

Notes

The threshold, method, and measure parameters interact in the following ways:

• If method='ctps', threshold refers to the significance value of a Kuiper statistic, and threshold='auto' will compute the threshold automatically based on the sampling frequency.

• If method='correlation' and measure='correlation', threshold refers to the Pearson correlation value, and threshold='auto' sets the threshold to 0.9.

• If method='correlation' and measure='zscore', threshold refers to the z-score value (i.e., standard deviations) used in the iterative z-scoring method, and threshold='auto' sets the threshold to 3.0.

References

7(1,2)

Jürgen Dammers, Michael Schiek, Frank Boers, Carmen Silex, Mikhail Zvyagintsev, Uwe Pietrzyk, and Klaus Mathiak. Integration of amplitude and phase statistics for complete artifact removal in independent components of neuromagnetic recordings. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(10):2353–2362, 2008. doi:10.1109/TBME.2008.926677.

Examples using find_bads_ecg:

Getting started with mne.Report

Getting started with mne.Report

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

find_bads_eog(inst, ch_name=None, threshold=3.0, start=None, stop=None, l_freq=1, h_freq=10, reject_by_annotation=True, measure='zscore', verbose=None)

Detect EOG related components using correlation.

Detection is based on Pearson correlation between the filtered data and the filtered EOG channel. Thresholding is based on adaptive z-scoring. The above threshold components will be masked and the z-score will be recomputed until no supra-threshold component remains.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

Object to compute sources from.

ch_namestr

The name of the channel to use for EOG peak detection. The argument is mandatory if the dataset contains no EOG channels.

thresholdfloat | str

Value above which a feature is classified as outlier.

• If measure is 'zscore', defines the threshold on the z-score used in the iterative z-scoring method.

• If measure is 'correlation', defines the absolute threshold on the correlation between 0 and 1.

• If 'auto', defaults to 3.0 if measure is 'zscore' and 0.9 if measure is 'correlation'.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used to the last sample.

l_freqfloat

Low pass frequency.

h_freqfloat

High pass frequency.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

New in version 0.14.0.

measure‘zscore’ | ‘correlation’

Which method to use for finding outliers among the components:

• 'zscore' (default) is the iterative z-scoring method. This method computes the z-score of the component’s scores and masks the components with a z-score above threshold. This process is repeated until no supra-threshold component remains.

• 'correlation' is an absolute raw correlation threshold ranging from 0 to 1.

New in version 0.21.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

eog_idxlist of int

The indices of EOG related components, sorted by score.

scoresnp.ndarray of float, shape (n_components_) | list of array

The correlation scores.

See also

find_bads_ecg, find_bads_ref

Examples using find_bads_eog:

Getting started with mne.Report

Getting started with mne.Report

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

find_bads_ref(inst, ch_name=None, threshold=3.0, start=None, stop=None, l_freq=None, h_freq=None, reject_by_annotation=True, method='together', measure='zscore', verbose=None)

Detect MEG reference related components using correlation.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

Object to compute sources from. Should contain at least one channel i.e. component derived from MEG reference channels.

ch_namelist of str

Which MEG reference components to use. If None, then all channels that begin with REF_ICA.

thresholdfloat | str

Value above which a feature is classified as outlier.

• If measure is 'zscore', defines the threshold on the z-score used in the iterative z-scoring method.

• If measure is 'correlation', defines the absolute threshold on the correlation between 0 and 1.

• If 'auto', defaults to 3.0 if measure is 'zscore' and 0.9 if measure is 'correlation'.

Warning

If method is 'together', the iterative z-score method is always used.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used to the last sample.

l_freqfloat

Low pass frequency.

h_freqfloat

High pass frequency.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

method‘together’ | ‘separate’

Method to use to identify reference channel related components. Defaults to 'together'. See notes.

New in version 0.21.

measure‘zscore’ | ‘correlation’

Which method to use for finding outliers among the components:

• 'zscore' (default) is the iterative z-scoring method. This method computes the z-score of the component’s scores and masks the components with a z-score above threshold. This process is repeated until no supra-threshold component remains.

• 'correlation' is an absolute raw correlation threshold ranging from 0 to 1.

New in version 0.21.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

ref_idxlist of int

The indices of MEG reference related components, sorted by score.

scoresnp.ndarray of float, shape (n_components_) | list of array

The correlation scores.

See also

find_bads_ecg, find_bads_eog

Notes

ICA decomposition on MEG reference channels is used to assess external magnetic noise and remove it from the MEG. Two methods are supported:

With the 'together' method, only one ICA fit is used, which encompasses both MEG and reference channels together. Components which have particularly strong weights on the reference channels may be thresholded and marked for removal.

With 'separate' selected components from a separate ICA decomposition on the reference channels are used as a ground truth for identifying bad components in an ICA fit done on MEG channels only. The logic here is similar to an EOG/ECG, with reference components replacing the EOG/ECG channels. Recommended procedure is to perform ICA separately on reference channels, extract them using get_sources(), and then append them to the inst using add_channels(), preferably with the prefix REF_ICA so that they can be automatically detected.

With 'together', thresholding is based on adaptative z-scoring.

With 'separate':

• If measure is 'zscore', thresholding is based on adaptative z-scoring.

• If measure is 'correlation', threshold defines the absolute threshold on the correlation between 0 and 1.

Validation and further documentation for this technique can be found in 8.

New in version 0.18.

References

8

Jeff Hanna, Cora Kim, and Nadia Müller-Voggel. External noise removed from magnetoencephalographic signal using independent component analysis of reference channels. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108592.

Examples using find_bads_ref:

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

fit(inst, picks=None, start=None, stop=None, decim=None, reject=None, flat=None, tstep=2.0, reject_by_annotation=True, verbose=None)

Run the ICA decomposition on raw data.

Caveat! If supplying a noise covariance keep track of the projections available in the cov, the raw or the epochs object. For example, if you are interested in EOG or ECG artifacts, EOG and ECG projections should be temporally removed before fitting the ICA.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw or Epochs

The data to be decomposed.

picksstr | list | slice | None

Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values “all” to pick all channels, or “data” to pick data channels. None (default) will pick good data channels (excluding reference MEG channels). Note that channels in info['bads'] will be included if their names or indices are explicitly provided. This selection remains throughout the initialized ICA solution.

start, stopint | float | None

First and last sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample and to the last sample, respectively.

Note

These parameters only have an effect if inst is Raw data.

decimint | None

Increment for selecting only each n-th sampling point. If None, all samples between start and stop (inclusive) are used.

reject, flatdict | None

Rejection parameters based on peak-to-peak amplitude (PTP) in the continuous data. Signal periods exceeding the thresholds in reject or less than the thresholds in flat will be removed before fitting the ICA.

Note

These parameters only have an effect if inst is Raw data. For Epochs, perform PTP rejection via drop_bad().

Valid keys are all channel types present in the data. Values must be integers or floats.

If None, no PTP-based rejection will be performed. Example:

reject = dict(
    grad=4000e-13, # T / m (gradiometers)
    mag=4e-12, # T (magnetometers)
    eeg=40e-6, # V (EEG channels)
    eog=250e-6 # V (EOG channels)
)
flat = None  # no rejection based on flatness

tstepfloat

Length of data chunks for artifact rejection in seconds.

Note

This parameter only has an effect if inst is Raw data.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

Has no effect if inst is not a mne.io.Raw object.

New in version 0.14.0.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

selfinstance of ICA

Returns the modified instance.

Examples using fit:

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Getting started with mne.Report

Getting started with mne.Report

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

get_channel_types(picks=None, unique=False, only_data_chs=False)

Get a list of channel type for each channel.

Parameters

picksstr | list | slice | None

Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values “all” to pick all channels, or “data” to pick data channels. None (default) will pick all channels. Note that channels in info['bads'] will be included if their names or indices are explicitly provided.

uniquebool

Whether to return only unique channel types. Default is False.

only_data_chsbool

Whether to ignore non-data channels. Default is False.

Returns

channel_typeslist

The channel types.

get_components()

Get ICA topomap for components as numpy arrays.

Returns

componentsarray, shape (n_channels, n_components)

The ICA components (maps).

get_sources(inst, add_channels=None, start=None, stop=None)

Estimate sources given the unmixing matrix.

This method will return the sources in the container format passed. Typical usecases:

1. pass Raw object to use raw.plot for ICA sources

2. pass Epochs object to compute trial-based statistics in ICA space

3. pass Evoked object to investigate time-locking in ICA space

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

Object to compute sources from and to represent sources in.

add_channelsNone | list of str

Additional channels to be added. Useful to e.g. compare sources with some reference. Defaults to None.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, the entire data will be used.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, the entire data will be used.

Returns

sourcesinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

The ICA sources time series.

Examples using get_sources:

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

plot_components(picks=None, ch_type=None, res=64, vmin=None, vmax=None, cmap='RdBu_r', sensors=True, colorbar=False, title=None, show=True, outlines='head', contours=6, image_interp='bilinear', inst=None, plot_std=True, topomap_args=None, image_args=None, psd_args=None, reject='auto', sphere=None, verbose=None)

Project mixing matrix on interpolated sensor topography.

Parameters

picksint | list of int | slice | None

Indices of the ICA components to visualize. If None, all components are plotted in batches of 20.

ch_type‘mag’ | ‘grad’ | ‘planar1’ | ‘planar2’ | ‘eeg’ | None

The channel type to plot. For ‘grad’, the gradiometers are collected in pairs and the RMS for each pair is plotted. If None, then channels are chosen in the order given above.

resint

The resolution of the topomap image (n pixels along each side).

vminfloat | callable() | None

The value specifying the lower bound of the color range. If None, and vmax is None, -vmax is used. Else np.min(data). If callable, the output equals vmin(data). Defaults to None.

vmaxfloat | callable() | None

The value specifying the upper bound of the color range. If None, the maximum absolute value is used. If callable, the output equals vmax(data). Defaults to None.

cmapmatplotlib colormap | (colormap, bool) | ‘interactive’ | None

Colormap to use. If tuple, the first value indicates the colormap to use and the second value is a boolean defining interactivity. In interactive mode the colors are adjustable by clicking and dragging the colorbar with left and right mouse button. Left mouse button moves the scale up and down and right mouse button adjusts the range. Hitting space bar resets the range. Up and down arrows can be used to change the colormap. If None, ‘Reds’ is used for all positive data, otherwise defaults to ‘RdBu_r’. If ‘interactive’, translates to (None, True). Defaults to ‘RdBu_r’.

Warning

Interactive mode works smoothly only for a small amount of topomaps.

sensorsbool | str

Add markers for sensor locations to the plot. Accepts matplotlib plot format string (e.g., ‘r+’ for red plusses). If True (default), circles will be used.

colorbarbool

Plot a colorbar.

titlestr | None

Title to use.

showbool

Show figure if True.

outlines‘head’ | ‘skirt’ | dict | None

The outlines to be drawn. If ‘head’, the default head scheme will be drawn. If ‘skirt’ the head scheme will be drawn, but sensors are allowed to be plotted outside of the head circle. If dict, each key refers to a tuple of x and y positions, the values in ‘mask_pos’ will serve as image mask. Alternatively, a matplotlib patch object can be passed for advanced masking options, either directly or as a function that returns patches (required for multi-axis plots). If None, nothing will be drawn. Defaults to ‘head’.

contoursint | array of float

The number of contour lines to draw. If 0, no contours will be drawn. When an integer, matplotlib ticker locator is used to find suitable values for the contour thresholds (may sometimes be inaccurate, use array for accuracy). If an array, the values represent the levels for the contours. Defaults to 6.

image_interpstr

The image interpolation to be used. All matplotlib options are accepted.

instRaw | Epochs | None

To be able to see component properties after clicking on component topomap you need to pass relevant data - instances of Raw or Epochs (for example the data that ICA was trained on). This takes effect only when running matplotlib in interactive mode.

plot_stdbool | float

Whether to plot standard deviation in ERP/ERF and spectrum plots. Defaults to True, which plots one standard deviation above/below. If set to float allows to control how many standard deviations are plotted. For example 2.5 will plot 2.5 standard deviation above/below.

topomap_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to plot_topomap. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

image_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to plot_epochs_image. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

psd_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to psd_multitaper. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

reject‘auto’ | dict | None

Allows to specify rejection parameters used to drop epochs (or segments if continuous signal is passed as inst). If None, no rejection is applied. The default is ‘auto’, which applies the rejection parameters used when fitting the ICA object.

spherefloat | array-like | str | None

The sphere parameters to use for the cartoon head. Can be array-like of shape (4,) to give the X/Y/Z origin and radius in meters, or a single float to give the radius (origin assumed 0, 0, 0). Can also be a spherical ConductorModel, which will use the origin and radius. Can be “auto” to use a digitization-based fit. Can also be None (default) to use ‘auto’ when enough extra digitization points are available, and 0.095 otherwise. Currently the head radius does not affect plotting.

New in version 0.20.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

figinstance of matplotlib.figure.Figure | list of matplotlib.figure.Figure

The figure object(s). Components are plotted on a grid with maximum dimensions of 5⨉4. If more than 20 components are plotted, a new figure will be created for each batch of 20, and a list of those figures will be returned.

Notes

When run in interactive mode, plot_ica_components allows to reject components by clicking on their title label. The state of each component is indicated by its label color (gray: rejected; black: retained). It is also possible to open component properties by clicking on the component topomap (this option is only available when the inst argument is supplied).

Examples using plot_components:

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

plot_overlay(inst, exclude=None, picks=None, start=None, stop=None, title=None, show=True, n_pca_components=None)

Overlay of raw and cleaned signals given the unmixing matrix.

This method helps visualizing signal quality and artifact rejection.

Parameters

instinstance of mne.io.Raw or mne.Evoked

The signal to plot. If Raw, the raw data is displayed before and after cleaning. In a second panel, the cross-channel average will be displayed. Since dipolar sources will be canceled out, this representation is sensitive to artifacts. If Evoked, butterfly traces for signals before and after cleaning will be superimposed.

excludearray-like of int | None (default)

The components marked for exclusion. If None (default), ICA.exclude will be used.

picksstr | list | slice | None

Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values “all” to pick all channels, or “data” to pick data channels. None (default) will pick all channels that were included during fitting.

start, stopfloat | None

The first and last time point (in seconds) of the data to plot. If inst is a Raw object, start=None and stop=None will be translated into start=0. and stop=3., respectively. For Evoked, None refers to the beginning and end of the evoked signal.

titlestr | None

The title of the generated figure. If None (default), no title is displayed.

showbool

Show the figure if True.

n_pca_componentsint | float | None

The number of PCA components to be kept, either absolute (int) or fraction of the explained variance (float). If None (default), the ica.n_pca_components from initialization will be used in 0.22; in 0.23 all components will be used.

New in version 0.22.

Returns

figinstance of Figure

The figure.

Examples using plot_overlay:

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

plot_properties(inst, picks=None, axes=None, dB=True, plot_std=True, topomap_args=None, image_args=None, psd_args=None, figsize=None, show=True, reject='auto', reject_by_annotation=True, *, verbose=None)

Display component properties.

Properties include the topography, epochs image, ERP/ERF, power spectrum, and epoch variance.

Parameters

instinstance of Epochs or Raw

The data to use in plotting properties.

picksstr | list | slice | None

Components to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as component indices. None (default) will use the first five components. Each component will be plotted in a separate figure.

axeslist of Axes | None

List of five matplotlib axes to use in plotting: [topomap_axis, image_axis, erp_axis, spectrum_axis, variance_axis]. If None a new figure with relevant axes is created. Defaults to None.

dBbool

Whether to plot spectrum in dB. Defaults to True.

plot_stdbool | float

Whether to plot standard deviation/confidence intervals in ERP/ERF and spectrum plots. Defaults to True, which plots one standard deviation above/below for the spectrum. If set to float allows to control how many standard deviations are plotted for the spectrum. For example 2.5 will plot 2.5 standard deviation above/below. For the ERP/ERF, by default, plot the 95 percent parametric confidence interval is calculated. To change this, use ci in ts_args in image_args (see below).

topomap_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to plot_topomap. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

image_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to plot_epochs_image. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

psd_argsdict | None

Dictionary of arguments to psd_multitaper. If None, doesn’t pass any additional arguments. Defaults to None.

figsizearray-like, shape (2,) | None

Allows to control size of the figure. If None, the figure size defaults to [7., 6.].

showbool

Show figure if True.

reject‘auto’ | dict | None

Allows to specify rejection parameters used to drop epochs (or segments if continuous signal is passed as inst). If None, no rejection is applied. The default is ‘auto’, which applies the rejection parameters used when fitting the ICA object.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

Has no effect if inst is not a mne.io.Raw object.

New in version 0.21.0.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

figlist

List of matplotlib figures.

Notes

New in version 0.13.

Examples using plot_properties:

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

plot_scores(scores, exclude=None, labels=None, axhline=None, title='ICA component scores', figsize=None, n_cols=None, show=True)

Plot scores related to detected components.

Use this function to asses how well your score describes outlier sources and how well you were detecting them.

Parameters

scoresarray-like of float, shape (n_ica_components,) | list of array

Scores based on arbitrary metric to characterize ICA components.

excludearray-like of int

The components marked for exclusion. If None (default), ICA.exclude will be used.

labelsstr | list | ‘ecg’ | ‘eog’ | None

The labels to consider for the axes tests. Defaults to None. If list, should match the outer shape of scores. If ‘ecg’ or ‘eog’, the labels_ attributes will be looked up. Note that ‘/’ is used internally for sublabels specifying ECG and EOG channels.

axhlinefloat

Draw horizontal line to e.g. visualize rejection threshold.

titlestr

The figure title.

figsizetuple of int | None

The figure size. If None it gets set automatically.

n_colsint | None

Scores are plotted in a grid. This parameter controls how many to plot side by side before starting a new row. By default, a number will be chosen to make the grid as square as possible.

showbool

Show figure if True.

Returns

figinstance of Figure

The figure object.

Examples using plot_scores:

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

plot_sources(inst, picks=None, start=None, stop=None, title=None, show=True, block=False, show_first_samp=False, show_scrollbars=True, time_format='float', precompute=None, use_opengl=None, *, theme=None)

Plot estimated latent sources given the unmixing matrix.

Typical usecases:

1. plot evolution of latent sources over time based on (Raw input)

2. plot latent source around event related time windows (Epochs input)

3. plot time-locking in ICA space (Evoked input)

Parameters

instinstance of mne.io.Raw, mne.Epochs, mne.Evoked

The object to plot the sources from.

picksstr | list | slice | None

Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values “all” to pick all channels, or “data” to pick data channels. None (default) will pick all sources in the order as fitted.

start, stopfloat | int | None

If inst is a Raw or an Evoked object, the first and last time point (in seconds) of the data to plot. If inst is a Raw object, start=None and stop=None will be translated into start=0. and stop=3., respectively. For Evoked, None refers to the beginning and end of the evoked signal. If inst is an Epochs object, specifies the index of the first and last epoch to show.

titlestr | None

The window title. If None a default is provided.

showbool

Show figure if True.

blockbool

Whether to halt program execution until the figure is closed. Useful for interactive selection of components in raw and epoch plotter. For evoked, this parameter has no effect. Defaults to False.

show_first_sampbool

If True, show time axis relative to the raw.first_samp.

show_scrollbarsbool

Whether to show scrollbars when the plot is initialized. Can be toggled after initialization by pressing z (“zen mode”) while the plot window is focused. Default is True.

New in version 0.19.0.

time_format‘float’ | ‘clock’

Style of time labels on the horizontal axis. If 'float', labels will be number of seconds from the start of the recording. If 'clock', labels will show “clock time” (hours/minutes/seconds) inferred from raw.info['meas_date']. Default is 'float'.

New in version 0.24.

precomputebool | str

Whether to load all data (not just the visible portion) into RAM and apply preprocessing (e.g., projectors) to the full data array in a separate processor thread, instead of window-by-window during scrolling. The default None uses the MNE_BROWSER_PRECOMPUTE variable, which defaults to 'auto'. 'auto' compares available RAM space to the expected size of the precomputed data, and precomputes only if enough RAM is available. This is only used with the Qt backend.

New in version 0.24.

Changed in version 1.0: Support for the MNE_BROWSER_PRECOMPUTE config variable.

use_openglbool | None

Whether to use OpenGL when rendering the plot (requires pyopengl). May increase performance, but effect is dependent on system CPU and graphics hardware. Only works if using the Qt backend. Default is None, which will use False unless the user configuration variable MNE_BROWSER_USE_OPENGL is set to 'true', see mne.set_config().

New in version 0.24.

themestr | path-like

Can be “auto”, “light”, or “dark” or a path-like to a custom stylesheet. For Dark-Mode and automatic Dark-Mode-Detection, qdarkstyle and darkdetect, respectively, are required. If None (default), the config option MNE_BROWSER_THEME will be used, defaulting to “auto” if it’s not found. Only supported by the 'qt' backend.

New in version 1.0.

Returns

figmatplotlib.figure.Figure | mne_qt_browser.figure.MNEQtBrowser

Browser instance.

Notes

For raw and epoch instances, it is possible to select components for exclusion by clicking on the line. The selected components are added to ica.exclude on close.

New in version 0.10.0.

Examples using plot_sources:

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

save(fname, *, overwrite=False, verbose=None)

Store ICA solution into a fiff file.

Parameters

fnamestr

The absolute path of the file name to save the ICA solution into. The file name should end with -ica.fif or -ica.fif.gz.

overwritebool

If True (default False), overwrite the destination file if it exists.

New in version 1.0.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

icainstance of ICA

The object.

See also

read_ica

score_sources(inst, target=None, score_func='pearsonr', start=None, stop=None, l_freq=None, h_freq=None, reject_by_annotation=True, verbose=None)

Assign score to components based on statistic or metric.

Parameters

instinstance of Raw, Epochs or Evoked

The object to reconstruct the sources from.

targetarray-like | str | None

Signal to which the sources shall be compared. It has to be of the same shape as the sources. If str, a routine will try to find a matching channel name. If None, a score function expecting only one input-array argument must be used, for instance, scipy.stats.skew (default).

score_funccallable() | str

Callable taking as arguments either two input arrays (e.g. Pearson correlation) or one input array (e. g. skewness) and returns a float. For convenience the most common score_funcs are available via string labels: Currently, all distance metrics from scipy.spatial and All functions from scipy.stats taking compatible input arguments are supported. These function have been modified to support iteration over the rows of a 2D array.

startint | float | None

First sample to include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used from the first sample.

stopint | float | None

Last sample to not include. If float, data will be interpreted as time in seconds. If None, data will be used to the last sample.

l_freqfloat

Low pass frequency.

h_freqfloat

High pass frequency.

reject_by_annotationbool

Whether to omit bad segments from the data before fitting. If True (default), annotated segments whose description begins with 'bad' are omitted. If False, no rejection based on annotations is performed.

New in version 0.14.0.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

scoresndarray

Scores for each source as returned from score_func.

Examples using mne.preprocessing.ICA

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Getting started with mne.Report

Getting started with mne.Report

Rejecting bad data spans and breaks

Rejecting bad data spans and breaks

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Repairing artifacts with ICA

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Find MEG reference channel artifacts

Compare the different ICA algorithms in MNE

Compare the different ICA algorithms in MNE

From raw data to dSPM on SPM Faces dataset

From raw data to dSPM on SPM Faces dataset

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